How Music Thinks
Morgan GrolléEssays on musical psychology, structure and composition.
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Why Some Music Feels Alive
A: You said something odd to me last week. You said a piece of music was "trying" to get somewhere.
B: I did say that.
A: But you know it isn't trying anything. It has no wants. It's air pressure. Nothing more.
B: I know that. And I'd sa...
(composing on the grid pt.iii) The Composer's Deck
Every draw changes the question you're asking of the music.
Every draw turns the behaviours that usually stay underneath a piece into conscious choices.
Music theory describes relationships between notes. But almost nothing we actu...
(composing on the grid pt.ii) Sixteen Behavioural Starting Positions
The 16 Archetypes described the cells from the outside — what forces are active inside each one, what the music is doing with time and harmony and address. This is the same map read from the other side of the table. The emphasis is on behav...
What Won’t You Write?
Most composers have a clear sense of what they’re drawn to.
What’s harder to see is the negative space around those instincts. Not a conscious list — you probably couldn’t write it down. But it’s operating underneath every creative decisio...
(composing on the grid pt.i) Listening Without Arrival
Rather than analysing existing music, this essay documents the construction of a piece written inside a specific behavioural region. The conditions for writing it were fixed first. The music followed.
These cards were drawn before composit...
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